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L' Om Mani Padme Hum è un mantra molto conosciuto, anche se non tutti sanno che racchiude al suo interno, come un gioiello, un piccolo segreto...

Tokyo experiences its first November snowfall since 1962.

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***WINNER, 2011 Storytelling World Resource Award – Best Storytelling Collection The jataka tales—stories of the Buddha’s past lives (in both human and animal form)—were first...

Swedish artist Markus Åkesson enshrouds his subjects in elaborately patterned silks and satins, leaving only the impression of their faces, limbs, and torsos visible. An extension of his ongoing Now You See Me series, the artist’s latest paintings continue his exploration of repetition and the unsettling feelings evoked by being wrapped in fabric. By completely covering his models, they “became a secret. Instead, I started to tell a story within the pattern itself, like a sub-narrative in the painting,” he writes. More

Remember the Laughing Buddha found in many Indian homes? He is the Japanese Hotei, ( Chinese name, Pu-tai ) , The name literally means “linen sack.” He was a jolly, rotund monk of the 10th century who went from village to village, playing with children, bringing them sweet goodies in his sack, like the phenomenal Santa Claus. At night, the linen sack doubled up as his sleeping mat! Osho feels that Hotei is a fast vanish tribe ! Osho elaborates on this very beautifully: “Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others — the religious man laughs at himself, or at the whole ridiculousness of man’s being. Religion cannot be anything other than a celebration of life. And the serious person becomes handicapped: he creates barriers. He cannot dance, he cannot sing, he cannot celebrate. The very dimension of celebration disappears from his life. He becomes desert-like. And if you are a desert, you can go on thinking and pretending that you are religious but you are not. You may be a sectarian, but not religious. You can be a Christian, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Jain, a Mohammedan, but you cannot be religious. You believe in something, but you don’t know anything. You believe in theories. A man too much burdened by theories becomes serious. A man who is unburdened, has no burden of theories over his being, starts laughing. The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude. This Hotei is tremendously significant. Rarely has a man like Hotei walked on the earth. It is unfortunate — more people should be like Hotei; more temples should be full of laughter, dancing, singing. If seriousness is lost, nothing is lost — in fact, one becomes more healthy and whole. But if laughter is lost, everything is lost. Suddenly you lose the festivity of your being; you become colorless, monotonous, in a way dead. Then you energy is not streaming any more. Laughter is a flowering. If Buddha was the seed, then Hotei is the flower on the same tree. If Buddha is the roots, then Hotei is the flower on the same tree. And if you want to understand Buddha, try to understand Hotei. And it is right that people used to call him the Laughing Buddha. Buddha has come of age in Hotei. Buddha has laughed in Hotei. Enlightenment has come to its very crescendo. But it is difficult to understand Hotei. To understand him you will have to be in that festive dimension. If you are too much burdened with theories, concepts, notions, ideologies, theologies, philosophies, you will not be able to see what this Hotei is, what his significance is — because he will laugh looking at you. He will laugh because he will not be able to believe that a man can be so foolish and so ridiculous. It is as if a man is just trying to live on a cookery book and has forgotten to cook food; just goes on studying books about food and how to prepare it and how not to prepare it, and argues this way and that — and is all the time hungry, all the time dying, and has forgotten completely that one cannot live on books. That’s what has happened: people are living on Bibles, Korans, Dhammapadas, Gitas — they have completely forgotten that religion has to be lived. It is something that has to be digested. It is something that has to circulate in your blood, become your bones, your very marrow. You cannot just think about it. Thinking is the most superficial part of your being. You have to absorb it! Source – Osho Book “A Sudden Clash of Thunder”

Karma-Sprüche erinnern uns daran freundlich und gütig zu bleiben, und sie lassen uns den Moment schätzen und unsere Handlungen betrachten.

The distorted Character Heads of the 18th-century Viennese sculptor have long perplexed critics – but they catch the mood of Vienna during the Enlightenment

アイヌ民族 Ainu, early century, Hokkaido, Japan

Time is running out to enter the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards.

This Cambodian nun is practically reaching celebrity status on Flickr... It's almost impossible to miss her at the Bayon temple, and she's been in some great shots taken by other Flickr photographers: www.flickr.com/photos/rctravel/20213959/ www.flickr.com/photos/dianabartwillem/221434109/ www.flickr.com/photos/97498964@N00/242646145/ www.flickr.com/photos/39463330@N00/119249893/